Music Album Review #1: Imagine Dragons - Night Visions [Deluxe Edition]

[vaclavclaus]

Since I don't necessarily like writing anything about myself, I decided to try something new here with LJ. I'm going to review...stuff and things almost every day. That's the goal, anyway. I'm going to write fairly extensive reviews on music albums, movies, TV episodes, manga volumes, even stuff like figurines as I get them. I'm not going to do

Comments

[bloody_arrowdog]

BAWWWW I love On Top of the World. It's a cute song and I think happy, perky songs bring a nice balance to albums ((I like it when albums can explore multiple "moods" and not be the same mood the entire way through)). This song doesn't really make me think of Train at all, though. Train does a lot of love songs that are very blue collar in nature rather than stuff that's perky and generally about feeling good. On Top of the World is more about being happy in your own skin and learning and growing, as well as achieving goals. If anything, it somewhat represents some of what I like in Imagine Dragons' songs. Because they're a new band, there's a fresh sense of optimism and confidence in general with a lot of their songs and the darker ones aren't as much dark as they are cool. I also like their diversity of theme. This album has quite enjoyable lyrics overall.

Bawww, My Fault is one of my favorites from this xD I think it has a powerful sound and it could be a love song... but I think it could be interpreted as the easily-relateable feeling of screwing over of any kind of relationship, like a friendship.

I believe I read somewhere that America is a song that was made to honor war veterans. It's not the most stand out song in terms of sound, but I found it pretty inspiring with its words.

[vaclavclaus]

Those songs just didn't do a whole lot for me, but I bumped up my rating for the whole album because of that diversity they bring. It works as an album, but I won't put those songs in a different playlist.

I'm also really trying hard to critique the songs and trying to give true star ratings where:
1/5 = No listening for me
2/5 = I'll listen, but I won't pick it
3/5 = Average song, nothing special
4/5 = I'll put it in a shuffle playlist
5/5 = All-time fave